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Vision

To help transition Japan to a peace promoting post-carbon country while enjoying every step of the process.僕のビジョンは、祖国日本で、平和文化を育みポストカーボン（Post-Carbon) 社会を促進してゆく事です。化石燃料や原子力に頼らず、他国の資源を取らない、自給自足な国へのトランジションを実現させてゆきたいです。

Tokyo Urban Permaculture is a new project I started at the end of 2011, after two extraordinary seasons at the Bullocks Permaculture Homestead on Orcas Island, WA. Much of my inspiration has come from what I learned during my time at the Bullocks and from my experience with the City Repair movement in Portland, OR. Both highly highly recommended sites for ecological-cultural regeneration and interesting people.

Now that I am in Japan, I am embarking on an experiment to practice what I have learned in my years learning and practicing sustainability, and to figure out critical areas for growth.My five main projects at the moment are:

Regenerate tokyo with a creative network of permaculture activists and cultural change makers

End nuclear power in Kanto which will hopefully have a domino effect across Japan and the world

Power Shift Japan: connecting with the Global Power Shift movement to address dirty energy and climate change through empowering youth.

Wake Up! Sharing mindfulness practice to Japanese, particularly the youth, and exploring the core of happiness and sustainability by living it. Also, part of a global youth movement.

Compassionate communication (NVC): teaching heart to heart communication with a focus on youth, so that we can transcend a culture of judgement and engage with what all of us are really needing! Cultivating our consciousness for empathetic connection with all.

The larger vision is to transform the current consumption-driven cultural paradigm to one that focuses on ecological regeneration (keeping us alive and healthy), and the cultivation of happiness and compassion. Starting with Tokyo.

My current strategy is to explore a variety of approaches such as

teaching urban permaculture primarily by conscious donation

doing presentations on best practices (e.g. City Repair) from the US and other countries

relationship-building with a powerful university that has close government and corporate ties

stimulating the growing social movements against nuclear power and climate change

networking with a diverse population of cultural change agents

practicing engaged buddhism or mindfulness activism

SERVICES I OFFERWorkshops and talks on

Permaculture and urban permaculture: introductory sessions to more advance courses

I also started a life-coaching service based on compassionate communication. My role is accept you for who you are and where you are at in life, call out your power, and help you become who you want to be! I finished a 10-month certification course through Leadership that Works called Coaching for Transformation. I am happy to give free sample sessions and you'll get a taste of what is possible!

Please get into contact with me if any of this excites you or if you have any resources to share.

permacultivator (at) gmail.com

*need to change (at) to @

At the moment, this blog is primarily Japanese because that is my target audience and I want to limit my computer time. The current function of the blog is to announce workshops, plant ideas about urban permaculture, and other types of outreach. If there are many non-Japanese speakers interested, I can attempt to translate. At some point I hope to organise English-speaker friendly workshops and a permaculture festival. Let me know if you are interested. That is essential for motivating me.

Welcome!

ようこそ！

You have arrived to a bilingual blog about sustainability, permaculture, and peace activism. Yeah! Please leave a comment if you feel inspired.Thanks for visiting and I hope you spread the seeds:) *the ratio of English to Japanese changes unexpectedly so if there is a lot of strange foreign characters, check out older articles might have the more familiar alphabet.

About Me

A "half", as they call us in Japan, who grew up in metropolis and rural Japan, Hawaii, Santa Cruz CA, Central America, and now Orcas Island WA. Taking a stroll through the path of permaculture, mindfulness, and love. Looking for more like-minded people in Japan or people interested in transforming Japan...
百姓／平和活動家／パーマカルチャー・デザイナーのヒヨコです。ブロックス・パーマカルチャー・ホームステッド（ワシントン州のオーカス島）で弟子入り生活をしていましたが、今は東京で平和と愛を育む活動をしています。先生、仲間、プロジェクト、土地を捜しています！